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amn esia, 2

 
ammophilous
sand loving
ex ammos, sand

amnemonic

amnesia
and its types
lacunar amnesia
amnesia acustica
word-deafness
word-blindness
mind-blindness
tactile amnesia
visual amnesia

amnesia of touch, of nouns, of names
of gestures

and horses so named, and girls, and boys, boats, and cats, elephants and (many) winds

amnesia of the hand

amnesty
a forgetting or overlooking; an act of oblivion; a general pardon

amnic
of or pertaining to a river; fluvial
amnic
same as amniotic

amnicola
that grows in or by a river (colere to dwell)
amnigenous
in a river born
ex amnis, L river

amnion
the membrane around the fetus; also,
the bowl in which the blood of victims was caught at the sacrifices

But I am well aware that what I write is only a tone.
— Clarice Lispector, Água Viva (1973; Stefan Tobler trans, 2012) : 22
(among passages on blood and the placenta, forest and disorder, words that form an intense thicket)

amnios
an erroneous form for amnion

aname.
Obs. rare.
To mention, name

anamesite
a fine-grained variety of basalt

anamnesis
a calling to mind; the vague recollection of a state of existence preceding the present life; the account given by a patient or his friends of the history of his case
reminiscence, or memorial sacrifice (liturgical)

ex ambulations through The Century Dictionary and Encyclopaedia (1906), entry for amnesia in Vol. 1 (of 10), and sundry other sources.

all tagged amnesia
all tagged sand
 

6 October 2016
tags: Clarice Lispector; Megan Vaughan; amnesia; anamnesis; sand